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By Jean Paul Laurens.
OMEGA:
THE LAST DAYS OF THE WORLD
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CHAPTER I.
The magnificent marble bridge which unites the Ruede Rennes with the Rue de Louvre, and which, linedwith the statues of celebrated scientists and philosophers,emphasizes the monumental avenue leading to the newportico of the Institute, was absolutely black with people.A heaving crowd surged, rather than walked, along the8quays, flowing out from every street and pressing forwardtoward the portico, long before invaded by a tumultuousthrong. Never, in that barbarous age preceding the constitutionof the United States of Europe, when might wasgreater than right, when military despotism ruled theworld and foolish humanity quivered in the relentlessgrasp of war—never before in the stormy period of agreat revolution, or in those feverish days which accompanieda declaration of war, had the approache